Dr.
Shashishekhar Toshkhani

Dr. S.S. Toshkhani is a renowned scholar of India and belongs to a great intellectual family of Kashmir. His father late Prof. S.K. Toshkhani was a legendary scholar of Kashmir's literature, language and culture. Dr. Toshkhani is a poet, linguist, writer and thinker. He has contributed substantially to Kashmiri heritage and carried out modern research in various fields of Kashmiri literature, history, religion, art and social science in general. He is a member of the research committee of Kashmiri Education, Culture and Science Society. He is conducting research on Bhakti tradition in Kashmiri Poetry as a Senior Fellow (on a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture) and on rituals and visual arts of Kashmir at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He has been associated in many leading seminars conducted by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society. Dr. Toshkhani, therefore, represents a great tradition of scholarship of Kashmir and Kashmiri
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Lal
Ded: The great Kashmiri Saint-poetess
Editor: Dr. S.S. Toshkhani.
This book represents the proceedings of a National Seminar on
"Remembering Lal Ded in Modern Times" conducted by Kashmir
Education, Culture and Science Society in New Delhi on 12 November, 2000.
Lalleshwari or Lal Ded, according to late Prof. Jayalal Kaul, has been the
greatest genius of Kashmir of all times. This book has many eminent
writers of modern period who have recollected the genius of Lal Ded for
the modern world. >>>

Kashmir: The Crisis in
Perspective
Lies, half truths and
systematic disinformation about the political situation and terrorist mayhem
has become the order of the day. Press and political activists are hostages
to the terrorist outfits. Freedom of opinion, dissent and beliefs have
been stamped out by the terrorists. Their manner of working and propagating
is right out from Fascist or Nazi tactics. Their cry for Azadi is a facade
for secession, depriving men of conscience from liberty and basic freedoms
guaranteed by the Indian constitution. >>>